The grumpy thread

131,217 · January 16, 2017

That's another 'buyer' who won't be back He's turned up, pestered the life out of me about a very very rusty 1970's Falcon Banana bicycle and kept telling me how much bits were going to cost (if he could get them at all) and the restoration of this, that and the other that it needed. He tried so many times to pull the wool over my eyes and chip me down I just shut my garage, parked the van across it and drove off in my car. The bike is Â£35.

It's not even much of a grump because it made me laugh, why do people even do that, he must have made a 60 mile round trip for nothing?

9,798 · January 16, 2017

It's unpresidented that's what it is.

That was aimed at the last post about the weather.
No delete feature

"unpresidented"...............like Ohbama? [pedant alert]

2,190 · January 16, 2017

This blue Monday bollocks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/15/blue-monday-2017-could-bluest-ever-says-expert-behind-equation/

Don't brainwash people into worrying about a day of the year or into having a negative outlook before they've even lived through that particular day.

I've just been out playing football in the garden with the dog, the weather is 2deg, which is good,bright sunrise etc

Stop being negative medja

Heard last week that FTSE 100 bosses had made ave wage by Wed 4th so they'll be be really in the money by now

, sorry

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3,526 · January 16, 2017

"unpresidented"...............like Ohbama? [pedant alert]

Even I didn't bother with that one.

"Obama", by the way.

7,523 · January 16, 2017

"unpresidented"...............like Ohbama? [pedant alert]

Yup I guess.

Unpresidented or unprecedented either way it seems to be the new buzz word about pretty much anything.

20,830 · January 16, 2017

More steroids tomorrow. I have so much shite going down my throat into my bronchial tubes I can barely breathe.

If this surgery fails I am putting a stick of TNT up each bastard nostril.

9,034 · January 16, 2017

More steroids tomorrow. I have so much shite going down my throat into my bronchial tubes I can barely breathe.
If this surgery fails I am putting a stick of TNT up each bastard nostril.

Fingers crossed this sorts it for you, Bren.

9,265 · January 16, 2017

Been a busy litle camper the last few days but had a bit of time in actual daylight to have a butchers hook at the dollop and its new vents. Impressed with the work, very good indeed and paint match is identical which bodes well for further wallet rapeage when needed.... But, noticed that there are tiny bits of alloy corrosion starting on the drivers side doors... again! I do mean tiny though, like a MM size bleb which having noticed the first, I had to inspect with my Sherlock Holmes sized magnifying glass all along the tops of the doors.

Only three, all on the drivers side and progressively smaller. So, aided by my trusty sight improver, I removed the rubber seals (Eek! What a job and totally unavailable multi lipped bastards) and there was the answer: when John (the horrible steroid abusing body building painter) did the work on the doors, he scratched the new paint in three places putting these seals back on. Bare alloy corrodes just like steel, who'd have thought it?

I forced some Waxoyl in there and the put a load of polish (not polished off) on as well, anyone reckon that will halt it? I shall not be taking those seals off again as getting them back on (without doing it correctly which involves stripping the doors completely and then drilling out the rivets that hold the chrome strip that the seal goes into) was a nightmare of curse word inducing effort. The small child that was passing at an unfortunate stage in the process now knows several new words, not ones on the national curriculum! Her delightful Mummy was not best pleased!

Oh and Specialist Cars were delighted to NOT be lumbered with doing the vents - definitely not a grump as I was worried about that.

27,392 · January 16, 2017

I'm trying to sell the 17" alloys I got with Mason the LS400, on gumtree.

First message I get is somebody asking if I want to swap for some ghastly 20" council estate drug dealer wheels. NO THX. I just want to sell them, as I don't have a car that they will fit, and won't have one any time soon.

25,148 · January 16, 2017

Bastard man, I've just knocked a bottle of hendo's out of the cupboard and it landed on the ceramic hob and smashed the shit out of it halfway through cooking a massive great pan full of corned beef hash. Felt like a right big man about 2 months ago telling the bloke from AO "No thanks mate, I'll take my chances without your insurance, I'm hardly gonna drop a cooker down the bog in the pub"

Bread sandwiches for tea then FFS

26,978 · January 16, 2017

Bastard man, I've just knocked a bottle of hendo's out of the cupboard and it landed on the ceramic hob and smashed the shit out of it halfway through cooking a massive great pan full of corned beef hash. Felt like a right big man about 2 months ago telling the bloke from AO "No thanks mate, I'll take my chances without your insurance, I'm hardly gonna drop a cooker down the bog in the pub"
Bread sandwiches for tea then FFS

Clean all traces of whatever hendos is off and ring up in a panic tomorrow saying it exploded on you whilst cooking corned beef hash...

1,001 · January 16, 2017

whatever hendos is

Sheffield Gold! You southerners may equate it to Worcestershire sauce but us Steel city dwellers know there is a world of difference.

I'll just leave this here as a reminder and indeed a warning:

https://youtu.be/qfAJtf3QuBY

20,071 · January 17, 2017

I ordered a new timing belt kit for the Xsara TD engine going into my Berlingo.

It arrived today in a shoe box, the kit itself was inside battered packaging and the body of the pulley is covered in scratches. I'm not fussed about using old stock but the seller listed it as new and didn't mention the damaged packaging and scratches.

The packaging looks pretty old as well which makes me worry about the shelf life of timing belts.

9,265 · January 17, 2017

Sainsburys have just delivered, once again a load of substitutions so the bill went up by a tenner. Not worried about that as they credit you for your next shop. The grump is: I am desperate to dump them 'cos they is useless (my shopping comes from Paignton branch which is tiny and stocks fuck all, whereas the Torquay branch is huge and stocks everything, started out being from Torquay... and I live about 2 miles from the store so why have they swapped?) but all the time they owe me a tenner or so and if I don't shop with them, I can't use it. Yes, I am tight...

Yeah, I know, not really a problem, first world guff etc, but it makes ME grumpy!

9,034 · January 17, 2017

Insurance renewal for Leonard arrives - an increase of nearly Â£300 over last year.

Jog on, lads.

So much for eight year's customer loyalty.

17,653 · January 17, 2017

One of our 1992 Leyland Tigers at one of our schools this afternoon.

Headmaster totally disinterested. Bastards.

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12,293 · January 17, 2017

Bad tempered rant follows, please look away now if easily offended.

what the fuck is wrong with the world? why can't people get on irrespective of fucking colour or place of birth.

Some Americans seems determined to restart a civil war because their side lost, bloody Brexit is still causing shit with the remain side now seemingly saying we could have had everything Call me Dave asked for and more if we had just stayed in - it's funny he was told no then for concessions when he asked....,

Fuckwits keep parking over my driveway and I've just drunk the last cold beer in the fridge.

Bollocks there's no flaming wonder people are depressed, Job offers somewhere near a beach would be appreciated.

Edit to add I can get on and work with people from different mainstream religious backgrounds as well as the occasional odd squid god worshipping cultist we've all got common ground and can accept converting people at the point of an AK47 is right out of order.

27,997 · January 17, 2017

One of our 1992 Leyland Tigers at one of our schools this afternoon.

Headmaster totally disinterested. Bastards.

Really?

Our kids schools work well with the bus company and have had kids banned. I assume it's quite amusing* for the parents when a letter comes home saying how they're now responsible for getting Little Bobby to school on time every morning.

There was one where nobody owned up to lobbing a tennis ball the length of the bus and hitting the driver with it, so he pulled over in the middle of the countryside, turned the engine off and told the kids to start phoning their parents to pick them up as it wasn't safe to continue with the prospect of more projectiles. School had a shedload of answerphone messages overnight with the same name that angry parents had drilled out of their kids.

I think I'd rather take a job licking shit stains off public bogs than drive a school bus.

17,653 · January 17, 2017

Really?
Our kids schools work well with the bus company and have had kids banned. I assume it's quite amusing* for the parents when a letter comes home saying how they're now responsible for getting Little Bobby to school on time every morning.
There was one where nobody owned up to lobbing a tennis ball the length of the bus and hitting the driver with it, so he pulled over in the middle of the countryside, turned the engine off and told the kids to start phoning their parents to pick them up as it wasn't safe to continue with the prospect of more projectiles. School had a shedload of answerphone messages overnight with the same name that angry parents had drilled out of their kids.

I think I'd rather take a job licking shit stains off public bogs than drive a school bus.

Really.

We work for a unitary authority and some schools are better than others... our mechanic had a toe to toe with the headmaster at the school which went along the lines of...

HT: "Those window rubbers are very rough looking."

Mech: "The bus was inspected by VOSA on Friday afternoon in a walk in depot inspection. It was cleared."

HT: "The bus clearly isn't for use if one of my children could push it out."

Mech: "Anyone could push a window out with their feet if they tried." *gestures to footprints on the glass*

HT: "I don't like the allegations you're making."

Mech: "Listen, this bus ran in Belfast for 20 years getting the shit bombed out of it and it's fucking fine. 6 months carrying your arsehole weans and it's fucked!"

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January 17, 2017

I used to drive school buses at the same school I went to 15 years earlier. The kids were still little shits & the same headmaster was still there & still a cunt. Difference was I could tell him this time, it cheered me up a lot.

25,148 · January 17, 2017

Driving the school runs seems to get dumped on the mechanics etc in smaller bus companies. I couldn't do that for any amount of money, fuck that noise.

The mrs has worked in schools for years, mainly in management/attendance stuff rather than working with groups of pupils etc.

In September she started a new job as a head of year. It took her 6 weeks to hand her notice in, because (her words): "The kids are almost all spiteful little bastards and I can't stand to listen to any more of their petty arguments"

13,390 · January 17, 2017

Kings Lynn In fact most small towns and the UKs public transport system.

Got stranded in Kings Lynn, found out I had no money as a bill that was meant to come out tomorrow has come out today. My work did (reluctantly) sort out a hire car for me so I could at least get to my next job which wasn't that far away but at least 2 bus rides away. The bus to take me to Wisbech alone was gonna be Â£4.80! I was ordered off the bus, then went to take a taxi but found my account cleaned out by said bills.

Something similar happened to me near Farnborough, my fault though as I hadn't taken out any cash earlier on before delivering the vehicle. I found myself in this small village with small local shop who hadn't a cash machine and nor would they do cash back despite my asking nicely and explaining my situation.

It's amazing that places like these still exist and believe that something simple like a cash machine isn't worthy of having, it's also amazing that busses still only accept cash with all this new technology flying about. In Birmingham and some other places, you need to have the exact right change.

Transport links from these towns are atrocious, in fact the whole public transport system is atrocious. Fine if you want to and from a large town/city but other areas have such sparse links and what with a lot of jobs being dependent on time often only leads to a bad day. To get from mine to Bromsgrove which is about 9 miles take 2 hours, a bus, train and bus again - 2 hours of changing here and there, paying this and that FFS. Don't get me started on the Republic of London, "Oyster card" ? Fuck off.

24,052 · January 17, 2017

Been a busy litle camper the last few days but had a bit of time in actual daylight to have a butchers hook at the dollop and its new vents. Impressed with the work, very good indeed and paint match is identical which bodes well for further wallet rapeage when needed.... But, noticed that there are tiny bits of alloy corrosion starting on the drivers side doors... again! I do mean tiny though, like a MM size bleb which having noticed the first, I had to inspect with my Sherlock Holmes sized magnifying glass all along the tops of the doors.

Only three, all on the drivers side and progressively smaller. So, aided by my trusty sight improver, I removed the rubber seals (Eek! What a job and totally unavailable multi lipped bastards) and there was the answer: when John (the horrible steroid abusing body building painter) did the work on the doors, he scratched the new paint in three places putting these seals back on. Bare alloy corrodes just like steel, who'd have thought it?

I forced some Waxoyl in there and the put a load of polish (not polished off) on as well, anyone reckon that will halt it? I shall not be taking those seals off again as getting them back on (without doing it correctly which involves stripping the doors completely and then drilling out the rivets that hold the chrome strip that the seal goes into) was a nightmare of curse word inducing effort. The small child that was passing at an unfortunate stage in the process now knows several new words, not ones on the national curriculum! Her delightful Mummy was not best pleased!

Oh and Specialist Cars were delighted to NOT be lumbered with doing the vents - definitely not a grump as I was worried about that.

I find my Citroen specialist will do the work on the Mercedes if I ask, but are more than happy if I find another mug to do to. They don't see it as lost income but lost pain.

Edit, they are friends now of over twenty years and came to dinner over Christmas etc.

26,978 · January 17, 2017

Fucking aviva have changed their website...

'Please click here to add your policy to direct.aviva'... DOB, postcode, next screen policy number...